Barclays has increased the amount that can be paid to businesses through its Pingit mobile banking app in response to high demand

Barclays has increased the amount that can be paid to businesses through its Pingit mobile banking app in response to high demand.

Businesses can now receive payments of unlimited value. Barclays scrapped the previous limit of £5,000 per day following high demand for the service, with 5,700 small businesses registering to use the app as an alternative to cash, cards, cheques and online transfers.

“Small business owners lose time and money chasing late payments, but Barclays Pingit means from the time a payment is made, to the time it is in their account, is now a matter of minutes or hours, not days,” said Sue Hayes, managing director of business banking at Barclays.

Pingit small business user Mehmet Bekir, owner of building company MPBS, said: “I can send and receive money at the touch of a button using just my mobile phone, making my business far more efficient – I’m not waiting for cheques to clear and I can pay suppliers and be paid by customers in a matter of seconds."

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